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food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone watching welcome one and also this
newest edition of the running on empty food review series i'm your host the report of
the week thanks for being here hope everyone out there is feeling and doing all right today
you could tell by this red suit that i'm wearing i mean normally you know how it is with me i usually
wear darker colors you know usually maybe black suits or gray suits the occasional blue suit
but you could tell the bright red shirt the really popping red tie and just the red suit in general
that this is going to be a spicy review hence the spicy red outfit that i'm wearing
a pizza a spicy pizza at that something that's been released before at least in terms of the
the concept of a pizza with some spice but still not necessarily the most common uh
thing to be released but it seems as though 2022 so far um spice may be a little bit of a trend
i know recently arby's released the diablo dare sandwich which was supposed to be
the spiciest fast food sandwich ever and to give them credit it was indeed pretty spicy
so pizza hut said we are going to release the spiciest fast food pizza ever
and we're going to find out today number one does it taste good number two how spicy is it so that's
gonna be the point of this review now let's get into the details there are three varieties of
this spicy pizza that you could get at pizza hut the whole thing is called the spicy lovers pizza
and here are the varieties that you can get you can get the spicy double pepperoni pizza that's
what we're going to be trying today that seems to be the most popular one that's the one that's
requested the most that's what most people seem to be getting so that comes with spicy marinara sauce
classic and crispy so it comes with classic pepperoni as well as crispy cupped
pepperoni it also comes with red jalapeno pepper and spicy flakes so we got the spicy sauce and
some spicy toppings it's a large pizza normally hand tossed style it's available at the price of
13 now the two other varieties you also have the spicy hawaiian chicken pizza which uh instead of
having the pepperoni instead it has chicken and pineapple which obviously a very controversial
move but pizza hut they said you know what forget it i don't care what happens i you know
if it takes the whole chain under so be it we're putting that pineapple on the pizza for the spice
sorry about that and the third pizza is a spicy veggie pizza and on that just like how they did
with the spicy hawaiian uh chicken pizza this one instead of the pepperoni and you know no sorts of
chicken or pineapples on it either that comes with green pepper green bell pepper it should
be mentioned as well as onion mushrooms and then again all of the spicy fixins as they say that you
would see on the other varieties so again it comes in those three varieties the pepperoni is the most
popular one large pizzas available at the price of 13. a spicy pizza at that now it comes in this uh
special box actually and pizza hut they sometimes go all out with the branding which is interesting
um so here's what they have again it's called the the spicy lovers
pizza series i do like the black box admittedly it has a fiery fusion with layers of flavor
and spicy marinara red chilies and here's the interesting thing on the box they say red chilies
but in the press release they say red jalapenos i think it's just a matter of terminology and
fiery flakes so a very spicy pizza and now let's open up this box and see what we have
and there you have it so let's get a thumbnail real quick and then we'll
get a closer look we'll take a slice out and you can see all the toppings in detail
right there there's that pizza
a fiery pizza at that you can see some of the flames already coming off of it
um now let's get a better look at this all right so let's get a slice i want
to pick a good slice with uh maybe that isn't overwhelming but has a little bit of everything
i think this this looks like a solid slice right here
but it's not cut so that is what it is ah here we go all right you know how it is sometimes
and let's get that close-up view so you could see it all right there's the pepperoni the pepper
another pepper oni the fiery flakes and underneath all of that
presumably would be spicy marinara sauce so you can see the slice
and all that it has on it so that said let's try it out the spicy double pepperoni pizza
from pizza hut let's find out how spicy it is it's going in
good
we'll take two more bites
all right i guess for the heck of it since people might be wondering let's try out the crust
i'll try to be rather concise what i want to do
break it down by ingredient i'll talk about what i was able to taste the most
number one is it spicy yes it is it most certainly is one thing that i actually
in terms of the items that i've tried out this year so far that are actually edible
um the good thing is that all the spicy ones are actually spicy which is great to see
now i know if you listen to enough of these or watch enough of these reviews
i might sound like a broken record when i go ahead and you know i talk about the spicy items
and i'm there saying the same exact thing right you've seen enough of these reviews
you know what i'm gonna say next you know you have all these releases that are like
ghost pepper this and habanero that and they say that's gonna be really spicy
of course it isn't it's like indiscernible from anything that isn't even marketed as being spicy
so i think a lot of people myself included i'm sure many of you if you've had enough fast food
that they say is going to be really spicy uh you kind of grow skeptical to it and you're kind
of you're sitting there it's like yeah right i believe it when i see it and then arby's released
the diablo dare sandwich and it was actually it's actually spicy now would i say that this is the
spiciest pizza ever no i i wouldn't um it's not one of those items where i'm there really
gasping for water or air or milk or anything a blue suit maybe that'll cool things down
it's not that but it is a spicy pizza and there's no doubt about it um it's a spicy pizza
spicier than most pizzas spicier than average so every bite has a bit of spice
therein and um yeah you're getting this for the spice and there is going to be spice and it's
going to be noticeable it's going to be pronounced it's going to be the prevailing flavor you're just
going to be able to taste that heat and um and that's what you have there so there's no lie
as for the spice level i think you could function with it you know you could certainly
it's not like that that really spicy stuff where it's just you can't do anything else but just
focus on trying to to lessen the spice and the burning and all of that it's not at that level
um so it's totally manageable but it's definitely going to be there it leaves a spicy aftertaste
definitely noticeable um pizza itself isn't bad though you have a nice little firmness on
the the bottom and the crust too but it's still obviously soft but at least it has that structure
i like the pepperoni on it i especially like the addition of the cupped pepperoni uh the
pepperoni certainly has a little bit of spice you know more mild i would say
but i just like the cupped pepperoni it seems like there's more volume to it and you're really able
to taste it on this pizza so i like that again especially the cupped pepperoni there seems to
be a good amount of it as well so that makes me that's happy to see happy to see that uh what i
could really taste the most interestingly enough were those spicy flakes that they put on the um
that they that they sprinkled on those might be like just red pepper um flakes but they're potent
there's a lot of them uh on the pizza you get them in every single bite pretty much and those
might be actually some of the spiciest things on it other thing no the spicy marinara sauce
it's very interesting where it still has that sweetness that you know the marinara sauce
usually does it's just what pizza hut likes to do but it just has this spice to it as well that's
lingering so those are the two things that are in every single bite that you're going to notice
the spicy sauce and the red pepper flakes sprinkled atop the pizza
again as for the pepperoni fan of the cups pepperoni and the jalapeno pepper um
little slices that you see here and there that's not going to be something that you're going to
be tasting in every single bite so it's like as you're eating the um the slice there's going to be
that baseline level of the spice but then as you make your way to one of the jalapeno pepper flakes
then it's going to be a real burst of spice and then you're really going to notice it
so it's like it's going to be spicy to begin with and then it's going to take that increase
once you eat that um the jalapeno then it's going to go down a little bit you know that
baseline will be there maybe a little higher as the aftertaste lingers then it's going to go up
again and by the time you're done with the slice depending on how many of those peppers are on it
uh yeah you might have a bit of a burning aftertaste for a little while
uh it doesn't linger on too long like i said i've been talking for a few moments now it's
it's better at this point but right after eating the slice that aftertaste does linger a little bit
but i like it um i think it's for people who are willing to try out the novelty of a spicy pizza
but there's a good amount of toppings tastes good cheese is fine crust is fine
the sauce is interesting but it all works together it works together it does exactly what they said
that it was going to do in that it creates a spicy pizza it's as advertised tastes good too
a large hand tossed pie for 13 bucks not bad so uh yeah it's a novelty item but i'm happy with
it i think it's what they said it was going to be it's a spicy pizza i think people who want
something spicy are going to like it and i'm a fan of it i don't really have many criticisms here
it's it's what i thought it would be and uh yeah i really can't complain so out of 10 what
am i going to be rating the spicy lovers pizza from pizza hut well it tastes good it's what
they said it was going to be everything works and uh that said 8.5 out of 10. not bad all
things considered so pizza hut i'd say they did a good job today that's all that i have for you
in today's review thanks for watching and until next time i'm your host the report of the week